Miting de avance day: Duterte, Roxas, Poe, Santiago hashtags trend

MANILA, Philippines – The country’s presidential candidates made their final pitches to voters on Saturday, May 7, sparking a fresh round of discussions online.

As of 8:30 pm on Saturday, the last day of campaigning for the 2016 elections, hashtags for 4 out of the 5 presidential bets were trending on Twitter:

• DUTERTE GRAND RALLY – for Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte
• MAR ROXAS NATION – for Liberal Party standard-bearer Manuel “Mar” Roxas II
• #MIRIAMREDvolution – for Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago
• #Love4POE and Plaza Miranda – for Senator Grace Poe

The hashtags for Duterte and Roxas have been trending since Saturday morning, while the hashtags for Santiago and Poe began gaining traction later in the day.

There was no trending hashtag for Vice President Jejomar Binay.

‘DUTERTE GRAND RALLY’

As of 7:30 pm, the hashtag DUTERTE GRAND RALLY racked up over 81 million impressions, according to Rappler’s social media analytics tool Reach. On Twitter, “impressions” means “the times a user is served a tweet in timeline or search results.”

The hashtag had more than 13,000 unique authors, or the number of people who contributed to the conversation.

Check out the performance of the conversation over time:

The biggest influencers on the topic were the Twitter accounts @OfficialDuterte (not the mayor’s official account, but one that appears to be run by his supporters), @AKOSiDUTERTE (also not an official account), and @AskandCHAT.

The bigger the dots on this map, the bigger the influence:

We love the New Philippines.
Filipinos helping each other, rich or poor, we’re all equal. pic.twitter.com/1GsGmoQyld

— DUTERTE SUPPORTERS (@OfficialDuterte) May 7, 2016

DUTERTE GRAND RALLY pic.twitter.com/e0qxeB8zLf

— Mayor Duterte (@AKOSiDUTERTE) May 7, 2016

@AskandCHAT well said ☺

— Doc Pags (@DocPags) May 7, 2016

 

‘MAR ROXAS NATION’

Meanwhile, the hashtag MAR ROXAS NATION got more than 116 million impressions, also as of 7:30 pm. It had 3,775 unique authors.

Here’s a look at the performance of the conversation over time:

The biggest influencers on the topic were the Twitter accounts @ohteenquotes and @silentn0m0re.

Respect if you want to be respected.

MAR ROXAS NATION

— Relationship (@ohteenquotes) May 7, 2016

 

Ipaglaban ang ating demokrasya! Suportado po namin kayo #RoxasRobredo MAR ROXAS NATION pic.twitter.com/gZGshQaRPV

— The Silent Majority (@silentn0m0re) May 7, 2016

 

‘#Love4POE’

The hashtags for Poe – #Love4POE and Plaza Miranda (venue of her miting de avance) – got more than 428 million impressions as of 9 pm. These had 1,984 unique authors.

Check out the performance of the conversation over time:

‘#MIRIAMREDvolution’

As for the hashtag #MIRIAMREDvolution, it received over 12 million impressions and had 3,045 unique authors as of 9 pm. This is almost the same number of authors as the conversation on Roxas despite trending much later in the day.

Here’s a look at the performance of the conversation over time:

Rappler will be providing more social media data as soon as they become available.

You can also watch videos and get comprehensive updates on the presidential candidates’ mitings de avance on Rappler’s live blog.

Find out here how you can become more involved on social media this Monday, May 9, when millions of Filipinos troop to the polls to elect their new leaders. – Rappler.com